Canada’s Kim Boutin and Maxime Laoun captured gold on the opening day of the short track World Cup cease in Salt Lake City, with each pace skaters successful their respective 500-metre races on Saturday.
Laoun posted a time of 40.946 seconds to say the primary particular person distance World Cup medal of his profession, practically topping his private greatest.
The 26-year-old from Montreal persevered to win the thrilling males’s ultimate. South Korea’s Lee June-Seo led early earlier than a wobble on the second lap, permitting Laoun to cross. Kazakhstan’s Abzal Azhgaliyev moved into the lead on the straight of the ultimate lap, however the Kazakh skater took a large flip and Laoun regained his spot forward of the pack.
Azhgaliyev completed with silver (41.054), whereas Lee took bronze (41.350).
WATCH | Laoun tops 500m podium:
Montreal’s Maxime Laoun finishes first in the lads’s 500m at a short track pace skating World Cup occasion in Salt Lake City.
Boutin received her first particular person World Cup medal of the season with a victory in the ladies’s 500m ultimate, crossing the road in 43.095. The four-time Olympic medallist from Sherbrooke, Que., raced out to an early lead and held off Poland’s Natalia Maliszewska (43.145) and hometown favorite Kristen Santos-Griswold (43.170).
Fellow Canadian Rikki Doak additionally competed in the ultimate, however an unlucky slip with two laps remaining left her with a fifth-place end.
Boutin received the ladies’s nationwide title at the Canadian Short Track Championships final month in Quebec City.
WATCH | Boutin wins gold:
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Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Que., wins the ladies’s 500m ultimate at a short track pace skating World Cup occasion in Salt Lake City.
In the ladies’s 1,500m ultimate, Canada’s Courtney Sarault completed fifth for her greatest results of the season. The Moncton, N.B., native momentarily moved into second place after making an outdoor cross halfway by means of the race, however a collision with Belgium’s Hanne Desmet prompted her to lose momentum and fall out of podium place.
Danae Blais completed sixth behind Sarault. The Châteauguay, Que., native earned her spot in the principle bracket after working her method by means of the morning repêchage.
The World Cup occasion in Salt Lake City wraps up on Sunday. Watch dwell protection on CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem and the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android beginning at 4 p.m. ET.
The subsequent World Cup short track pace skating stops are in Almaty, Kazakhstan (Dec. 11th of September, Dec. 16-18).